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UNITED STATES PATENT. O FICE,

RICHARD ALEXANDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GUSTAVE LEVE, OF SAMEPLAOE,,AND HENRY P. ALDEN, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

RAILROAD TIME-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,836, dated May 16,1882. Application filed March 1,1882. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD ALEXANDER,

of New York, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented anImproved Railroad Time-Table, of which the following is a specification.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent perspective views of my improvedtime-table.

The object of this invention is to produce a .10 time-table on which canbe read with convenience all the schedules of trains on any particularroad and its branches in such manner that the time at which a train willleave any particular station and the timeat which it or its branchtrains or boats will reach any particular on one of the branches of therailway or boat line.

My invention consists in combining with a trunk time-table leaves soarranged with reference to their length and the matter which 0 isprinted upon them, and so bound, stitched, or gummed together, that whenany one or more of these leaves is or are folded upon the trunk or firsttable it or they will, in connection with what they leave uncovered onthe latter, for- 3 5 mulate a complete time-table for the particularbranch orseries of trains, conveyances, or boats desired to beascertained.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the back leaf of my improvedtime-table, which 40 contains the names of stations, and in linetherewith the times of departure or arrival of trains, in their order,in columns that are marked a b c d, the names of the stations beingin acolumn which is marked e. The timetable, which is printed on the leaf A,is a complete time-table by itself, showing the arrival and departure oftrains between two particular terminal stationssay NewYork and New Orleansasindicated. To this leaf Ais stitched,

' 5 bound, gnmmed, or otherwisefastened,at or near one edge, a series ofleaves, B O D E F G,

850., preferably to its lower end, each of said leaves B O D E F G,850., being so arranged that it can be folded over apart of the leaf A,but not over the whole of it, and each of these leaves contains on itanother time-table, with the names, stations,and the times of departureor arrival of trains therein, so that when such a leaf-say the leaf B(see Fig. 2)-is folded upon the leaf A the columns 11", c", and d ontheleaf B will come in line with those marked b c (1, respectively, onthe leaf A, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. The names of the stations onthe column 6* of the leafB will be consecutive with the names of thestations left uncovered on the leaf A, and will be the names of a branchof the road or route marked on the leaf A-for example, the branchbetween Richmond and San Antonio-so that when B is turned upon A it willpresent a continuous time-table between New York and San Antonio and allthe intermediate stations on that route. Then, by folding the shorterleafO over the leaf B, which partly covers the leaf A, as

in Fig. 3, the route between Richmond and Jacksonville 'via Atlanta maybe read off, so that on the leaves A, B, and 0 thus exposed thecontinuous route from New York to J acksonville can be read off; and soforth. In like manner, by folding a longer sheet-D, for instance-than Bis upon'the sheet A, the trains between NewYork and Montgomery, Alabama,might be read off on the same route that be gins by trains travelingbetween New York and Washington, or between NewYork and 5 Baltimore; andthus it will be seen that by properly arranging the leaves in the bookthey can be folded one upon. the other to read off the continuous routesbetween the two terminal stations'of each, rendering the reading of 9the time-tables of branch routes easy and preventing all confusion.

I claim- The railroad time-table consisting of a series of leaves ofvarying lengths, all'fastened together at one edge, and adapted to befolded one upon the other, and when folded one upon the other to producecontinuous reading-matter and continuous time-tables between terminalstations, as herein shown and described. I00

RICHARD ALEXANDER. Witnesses:

GEORGE BIRNBAUM, SAML. R. Burrs.

